Open AccessProlonged small vessel vasculitis with colon mucosal inflammation as first manifestations of Behçet’s disease
Author(s) -
Xiaoning Yang
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
world journal of gastroenterology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.427
H-Index - 155
eISSN - 2219-2840
pISSN - 1007-9327
DOI - 10.3748/wjg.v20.i14.4110
Subject(s) - medicine , behcet's disease , vasculitis , disease , etiology , systemic vasculitis , inflammatory bowel disease , ulcerative colitis , tuberculosis , pathology , retinal vasculitis , dermatology , gastroenterology
Behçet's disease is a chronic, relapsing, systemic vasculitis of unknown aetiology. Patients present manifestations of gastrointestinal complications, including mouth lesions, small and large intestinal lesions, and vascular lesions in the abdomen. In some cases, the intestinal ulcers of patients with Behçet's disease are indistinguishable from those of Crohn's disease, tuberculosis, vasculitis and other diseases. In this article, we present a case of atypical Behçet's disease with a complicated medical history and multisystem damage, for the purpose of better management of this disease.